Venues
Palazzo Ducale | Galleria degli Specchi

The Galleria degli Specchi is located in the oldest part of the Palazzo Ducale called Corte Vecchia. Originally the room was built in the form of a loggia, opening onto the courtyard of honor, but by 1611 it was closed and housed the most important paintings from the Gonzaga collection.
The gallery had the largest pictorial decoration ever executed in the palace, dating back to around 1618 and inspired by the celebration of the sciences and arts, with allegorical figures taken from the Iconology of Cesare Ripa. Parnassus was painted in the two large lunettes at the ends, where portraits of poets appear together with Apollo and the Muses (at least Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto and Tasso appear) and the Allegory of the Liberal Arts.
On the lunettes on the long internal wall and in the two extreme parts of the vault, one after the other, there are images of the Virtues. In 1779 the walls were renovated with gilded stucco and mirrors as it still is today.
Events
Inauguration Vecando Trio - Ravel
May 29th 2024 – 9.00 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi
Manuela Mosca, Gabrielle Echiverri, Yana Prakudovich, Marco Decimo, Massimo Cottica - J. Brahms
May 30th 2024 – 12.00
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi
Giovanni Bietti - I love Puccini
May 30th 2024 – 5.00 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi
Avetis Quartet, Maya Oganyan - Dvorák
May 30th 2024 – 9.15 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi
Ensemble 900, Francesco Bossaglia, Erik Bertsch - Ciceri
May 31st 2024 – 12.00
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi
QuartettOCMantova, Andrea Rebaudengo - Šostakóvič
May 31st 2024 – 5.00 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi
Marco Rizzi, Giovanni Gnocchi, Andrea Lucchesini - Brahms
May 31st 2024 – 9.15 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi
Silvia Chiesa, Maurizio Baglini - Novecento Italiano, il canto strumentale
June 1st 2024 – 12.00
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi
Alessandra Ammara, Roberto Prosseda, Sandro Cappelletto - Pagine di guerra e aria di libertà
June 1st 2024 – 3.00 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi
Ensemble OCM, Luca Ciammarughi - Mozart
June 1st 2024 – 5.00 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi
Klimt Quartet, Amerigo Bernardi - Schubert
June 1st 2024 – 9.00 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi
Javier Comesaña Barrera, Ying Li - Boulanger, Respighi
June 2nd 2024 – 12.00
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi
Cinzia Forte, Sandro Cappelletto, Marco Scolastra - Ho dovuto ucciderle (quasi) tutte. Giacomo Puccini talks about his divas
June 2nd 2024 – 3.00 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi
Irena Kavčič, Tommaso Lonquich, Alessandro Stella - Eisler, Vauda, Poulenc
June 2nd 2024 – 5.00 pm
Palazzo Ducale, Galleria degli Specchi
